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Miracle-WM 0.3, a new Wayland compositor based on Ubuntu’s MIR, was released with window animations, workspace switching, and improved bug fixes.

The Intel kernel graphics driver code being queued for the Linux 6.11 kernel already has added the initial Intel Battlemage PCI IDs, Battlemage display support, eDP Panel Replay support, Hardware Replay to help with hang debugging, SR-IOV preparations, and more Lunar Lake / Xe2 enablement. Today another unexpected last minute pull request was submitted of a bit more Xe driver code.

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.1.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment with more bug fixes and small improvements.

If you’re yet to try Miracle-WM, a new tiling window manager made for the Mir Wayland compositor, the latest version, released today, would be a stellar place to start.

XPipe is a powerful client-side server and container management tool for Linux. Learn how to install XPipe on Linux today.

Bash scripting is a powerful tool for automating tasks on Linux and Unix-like systems. While it's well-known for managing file and process operations, arithmetic operations, such as division, play a crucial role in many scripts. Understanding how to correctly divide two variables can help in resource allocation, data processing, and more. This article delves into the nuances of performing division in Bash, providing you with the knowledge to execute arithmetic operations smoothly and efficiently.

A proposal has been made for Fedora 42 to collect user data via an opt-in system. Transparency and user control are promised, but doubts linger.

Windows is down, Android is surging, and even GNU/Linux is doing reasonable well.

Tired of Outdated Apps? Here are Some Ways to Install Latest Apps Without Breaking Your Debian System.

Google is adding more languages to Google Translate – lots more. This time around, 110 of them, including Manx. This is the largest single expansion ever to Google's translation tool. It now handles 243 different tongues, coming close to doubling the number of languages it handles.

Nearly every Linux kernel cycle has bought patches to bump the version of the Rust language targeted by the kernel as it worked toward having a suitable minimum version. With the latest Linux kernel patches, it looks like we may be finally approaching the point where a safe minimum version can be specified and for the Linux kernel to in turn allow supporting multiple different versions of the Rust compiler.

Adobe Firefly is software which uses generative AI and simple text prompts to generate images. Its Firefly generative AI models are trained on licensed content, such as Adobe Stock, along with public domain content where copyright has expired, and images from Wikimedia.

MySQL 9.0 database rolls out with enhanced JSON support, new DDL for events, updated system variable tables, and more.

My friend recently wanted to bring an old laptop back to life. Her aging Intel MacBook was no longer supported by Apple, and instead of letting the machine wind up in a landfill somewhere, she decided to install Linux, an OS she'd never used before.

Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.5.1 as the latest version of this immutable and systemd-free Debian-based distribution.

In this tutorial, we are going to explain how to install Python on Ubuntu 24.04 OS. Python is a high-level programming language that offers hundreds of libraries for building web applications and use in machine learning. It supports multiple programming paradigms such as structural, functional, and object-oriented programming.

This year, along with all the usual in-depth technical talks about Linux at Red Hat's Devconf.cz developer conference, there were also several people there to promote AI-linked projects and the tech bros' previous favorites – blockchain projects.

With the start of the new month comes the Steam Survey hardware/software details for the month prior. The June 2024 results show a decline to the Steam on Linux marketshare but staying above the magic 2% threshold.

Bazzite is one of the best options to get Linux on various gaming handhelds, and the 3.5.0 release is out now that has improvements pretty much everywhere with expanded hardware support.

Have you ever wondered why most software projects start off well and then, several months later, turn slow and difficult? You’ve likely fallen into the traps of design as you go, two-week sprints that never accomplish much, and more ceremony meetings than time to complete your work. Maybe you’ve divided up your product into microservices but are running into never-ending orchestration issues and costs. Regardless, your team is now weeks past a critical product release that is going to take more weeks to finish.